The day book. (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, December 24, 1915, LAST EDITION, Image 7

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nST-fi5 tfTTr "care, was torn in two pieces.Will recover.George Messner, 1600 Wells, founddead in bed in gas-filled room. Noreason known.J. F. Black, 2521 W. Harrison st..sailor, took strychnine Tuesday tocommit suicide. Dead.Five boys with stolen auto arrestedin grocery of Sam Motanki, 2545 Lemoyne, while committing robbery.Jennie Amsel, 21, 4059 Kenmoreav., took poison. Dead. Left note. saying she felt gloomy.Joseph ' Opolski found guilty ofmurder and sentenced for life.Widow of dead man was witness forhim.Six hurt by falls on slippery sidewalks. Amelia Dippert, 2438 Ardenav., broke ankle.Henry Meyers, lieut. of fire dep't,dead. Contracted pneumonia whilemaking rescue in fire two weeks ago.Joseph Kirk, arrested in connectionwith sale of hotel at 1911 S. Racine.Patrick Clascoot, 1950 Prairie av.,suicide. Gun. Reason unknown.o oSCHOOL BOARD HAS A WARMYEAR AHEAD OF THEMNext year will be a hot one on theschool board which Chicagoans give$12,000,000 annually to spend carefully on education. Petty politicswill play a heavy part, and politicshurt the schools.Twenty-one trustees are appointedto the board and the custom Is togive each trustee a place on at leastone of the two important committees which do the active work ofshaping the school system. Mosttrustees get both places.Jacob Loeb, brother of Albert Loeb,vice president of Sears, Roebuck &Co.. owned by Julius Rosenwald, isin the president's chair and appointed committee members the otherday. This is how.Max Loeb, the new active leader ofthose who want to see the teachersorganize as they see fit, was not appointed to either the building andigrounds or school management committees. Charles Ffrench, another newmember of the board, was appointed on one committee only. Ffrenchwas the one who showed up the Illinois Manufacturers' ass'n when theytried to tell him how to vote on theLoeb rule just before his appointment to the board was ratified bythe council.He wrote to Aid. Buck telling howDudley Taylor, attorney for theI. M. A., asked him to lunch and thentold him that the I. M. A. didn't wantthe Chicago Teachers' Federation inthe schools and that the. I. M. A.helps its friends and punishes its enemies. Mrs. Gertrude H. Britton, staunchsupporter of the Teachers' Federation, with Mrs. Gallagher, anotherunion teachers' devotee, and MaxLoeb, were appointed only to twocommittees.The Loeb forces, as a rule, faredbetter.Those who voted not to oust theteachers' union were handled roughr by Loeb. On the school management committee, which makes promotions of teachers and tends to educational business in general, twofriends of the federation Were appointed. The committee seats eleven.The finance body with its twelvemembers who make up salary budgets contains only four who haveshown a disposition to help theteachers' union and prevent a salarycutMrs. F. E. Thornton, new memberof the board and life-long friend ofDr. John D. Robertson, was made amember of the committee on healthand sanitation. Robertson is goingto ask the school board for a $250,000 appropriation for doctors andnurses in the schools.Tarrytown, N. Y. Mrs. Finley J.Shepherd distributed thirty $10 goldpieces as Christmas gifts among telephone girls -here and in Irvington.Bfcffrtfrir.'TurtBi'frmiiifii'ditf "JC!J1Z1--iugtmmgmammm